Matrix-assembling mechanism.



No. 800,971. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905. B. P. BELLOWS. MATRIX ASSBMBLING- MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 13,1904.

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No. 800,971. BATENTED OCT. 3, 1905. B. F. BELLQWS.

MATRIX ASSEMBLING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 13,1904.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT-13,1904.

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BENJAMIN F. BELLOWVS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ELECTRIC COMPOSITOR COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEIV JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEWV JERSEY.

MATRIX-ASSEMBLING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed October 13, 1904. Serial No. 228,274.

To all w/mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. Remove, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleve land, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Matrix-Assembling Mechanism, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the mechanism of a matrix-assembling machine by which the matrices after they are released from their magazines are packed in line on the assembling-rail.

It consists of the packer and its parts and operating mechanism, the assembling-spout and parts, including the escapement mechanism and retaining-gate associated therewith, and the mechanism by which the packer operates said parts, as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described, and pointed out definitely in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of so much of the assembling mechanism of a matrix or type assembling machine as is necessary to disclose the present invention. In this figure the packer-slide is shown in its retracted position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, somewhat enlarged, of the lower part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1 with the packer in its forward position. Fig. 3 is a sectional front view of the assembling-spout. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a part of the assembling-rail, the packer-slide and parts associated therewith, the assembling-spout, and two matrices, one in said spout and one upon the assembling-rail, said matrices being shown in section. the packer-slide, and Fig. 6 is a sectional plan view thereof in the plane indicated by line A B of Fig. 5.

The matrices 1 when released from their magazine fall through channel 2 onto a rapidlymoving inclined belt 3, by which they are delivered into the assembling-spout 4. A belt for this purpose substantially is an expedient well known in the art and is a very desirable characteristic of construction, but not essential to the present invention. The matrices might be permitted to fall by'gravity alone to the spout 4, as they do in the machine forming the subject-matter of my prior patent, No.

-tical.

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevationof 598,408. The end of the spout is turned down directly over the assembling-rail 5. An escapement-wheel 6 is loosely mounted so that one of its radiating arms 7 will project into this spout and support the column of matrices therein. This wheel is retained from rotat ing by a pallet-lever 30, which when operated permits such movement of the wheel due to the weight of the matrices as will allow one matrix to fall from the spout. This matrix falls onto the assembling-rail in front of a reciprocating packer 10, which then pushes the matrix out of the spout and along the rail past a spring-detent 28, which prevents it from falling back. escapement mechanism described is operated by the packer so that one matrix will be presented to the packer during each forward movement thereof. The mechanism shown for reciprocating the packer, which is itself a slide, is of my invention and is particularly suited for that purpose; but any other suitable mechanism may be employed.

The mechanism shown consists of a reciprocating slide 11, a bell-crank lever 12, a link 13, connecting one arm thereof with the slide 11, and a link 14, connecting the other arm of said bell-crank lever with the packer-slide 10. The parts are so proportioned and arranged that when the packer is in its extreme forward position (see Fig. 2) the toggle comprising the link 14 and that arm of thebellcrank with which it is connected is substantially straight, and when it is in its rear position (see Fig. 1) said bell-crank is almost ver- The result is that the slide begins its forward movement rapidly, but gradually slows down until it completes its forward (movement. forward movement on the rail are brought to 'rest very slowly, and there is no danger of The matrices, therefore, in their their jumping away from the packer-slide.

The left side of the assembling-spout 4 is closed by a vertically-movable gate 17, which when in its lowest position holds the matrix resting on the rail 5 in an upright position and prevents it from falling over onto the assembling-rail. This gate is moved up and down by a lever 18, one end of which enters a slot 19 in said gate. A spring 20 acts to swing the lever so as tolower said gate. It is moved to lift said gate by the packer dur- The pallet-lever 30 of the ing the forward movement of the latter. On the rear face of the lever 18 is a projection 21, having upper and lower inclined surfaces. A lever 22 is pivoted to the packer, and it has a forwardly-extended projection 23 with inclined upper and lower surfaces, which engage with the inclined surfaces of the projection 21. WVhen the packer moves forward, the engagement of two of said inclined surfaces lifts the lever 18, and consequently the gate 17, so thus the packer may push a matrix out of the spout and along the assemblingrail. This gate is only held up temporarily, because the projection 23 passes the projection 21 during the forward movement of the packer-slide, thus permitting the gate to be moved down. hen the packer-slide moves backward, the other inclined surfaces on said projections engage; but it is the lever 22 which is lifted thereby, the lever 18 and the gate 17 being unaffected by such engagement. The packer-slide carries two pivoted fingers 40, which during the forward movement of the packer-slide strike that matrix which is in the spout resting on the assembling-rail and move it out of the spout and along said rail. Then the gate 17 is lowered, as stated, and an incline 25 on the packer engages with the operating-arm 31 of the pallet-lever 30. This temporarily releases the wheel 6, and the lowest matrix in the spout, resting on one of the wheel'arms 7, turns said wheel far enough to allow this matrix to fall onto the assembling-rail. The gate 17, however, holds it erect in the spout in position to be engaged by the packer-fingers during the next forward movement of the latter.

All of the described movements take place during the forward movement of the packerslide. After a matrix has fallen onto the rail the packer has to move backward and then part of its stroke forward before it strikes this matrix, which therefore has plenty of time to settle itself upon the rail before it is moved.

As slide 10 begins its backward movement the fingers 40 are separated, so that they will not touch the matrix, which has just fallen onto the assembling-rail; but as the slide 10 begins its forward movement these fingers are moved toward each other, so that they will strike the matrix in the assembling-spout resting upon said rail and will move it along said rail. The described movement of said fingers is possible because slide 10 is made of two relatively movable parts 44 and 45. The fingers 40 are pivoted to the part 44 on vertical pivots 46, and the operating-link 14 is connected with the other part 45. The part 44 is subjected to a greater or less amount of friction, as by a plunger 47, which is pressed against it by a spring 48, the tension of which may be regulated by a set-screw 49. The part 45 is slidably fitted in the part 44. It carries two wedges 52 53, which extend down between the fingers 40, or rather between levers 41, of which the fingers are a part, and are adapted to engage with projections 54 and 55 upon said levers, located on opposite sides of their pivots. As the part 45 is moved forward it is unaccompanied by the part 44 until one wedge 52 strikes a web on the slide member 44, after which the two members move together. During the independent forward movement of the member 45, one wedge 52 is caused to engage with the proiections 54 of the levers 41 and to so move them that fingers 40 are moved toward each other and into position to engage with a matrix resting on the rail, but in the assembling-spout. It is the member 45 also which is first moved in the reverse direction, and it moves along until the wedge 53 engages said web 50. When this happens, the two parts of the slide move backward together. While the part 45 is moving alone the wedge 52 is moved backward and the wedge 53 is moved into engagement with projection 55 on the levers 41, which levers are thereby moved to so spread the fingers 4O apart that they may pass, without touching, the matrix resting upon the rail in said assembling-spout.

The drawings show a peculiar connection between the pallet-lever and its operatingarm, intending to prevent the breaking or bending of either part if any temporary obstruction should oppose the movement of the pallet-lever when the operating-arm is moved up by the incline 25 on the packer-slide. In the construction shown the operatingarm 31 is pivoted to the pallet-lever, the pivot being indicated by 34. A coiled spring 35 is compressed between the operating-arm and a finger 36 on the pallet-lever, whereby motion is always transmitted from the operating-arm to the pallet-lever through said spring and whereby the operating-arm may compress said spring and move independently if anything prevents the movement of the palletlever. Downward movement of the operating-arm relative to the pallet-lever is prevented by the engagement ofashoulder37 on said operating-arm with the rear edge of the pallet-lever. The pallet-lever is returned to its normal position by a spring 33 when the packer-slide has been retracted, so as to carry the incline 25 thereon out of engagement with the operating-arm.

I claim- 1. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination with a matrix-assembling rail, a matrix-assembling spout discharging onto said rail, escapement mechanism controlling the falling of the matrices through said spout, and a reciprocating packer adapted to engage with and operate said escapement and to push the matrices out of said spout and along the assembling-rail.

2. In matrix-assemblmg mechanism, the combination of an assembling rail, an assembling-spout discharging onto said rail, and a vertically-movable gate for one side of said assembling-spout, with a reciprocating packer for moving a matrix out of saidspout and along said rail, and mechanism operated by said packer for moving said gate to permit such movement of the matrix.

3. In matrix -assembling mechanism, the combination of an assembling-rail, an assembling-spout, a gate for one side of said spout, and aspring actuated lever engaging with said gate, and having two opposite inclined engaging surfaces, with a reciprocating packerslide, a spring-actuated lever secured thereto having two opposite inclined surfaces for engagement with the inclined surfaces on said lever.

4. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination of a matrix-assembling rail, and a matrix-assembling spout discharging onto said rail, with a reciprocating packer-slide composed of two relatively movable parts, each having two shoulders adapted to engage with the two shoulders of the other part and to thereby limit the extent of their independent movement, mechanism for operating said packer-slide, connected with one of its two parts, and push-fingers for engagement with the matrices, which fingers are attached to the other part of said packer-slide.

5. In matrix assembling mechanism, a packer-slide composed of two relatively movable parts, matrix-engaging fingers movably mounted upon one of said parts, mechanism carried by the other of said parts for operating said fingers, and mechanism for operating the packer-slide connected to the other part of said slide.

6. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination of a packer-slide composed of two relatively movable parts, means carried by one of said parts for engaging the matrices, means for applying friction to said part, operating mechanism connected with the other of said two parts, and shoulders upon said parts for engagement with each other to limit the extent of the relative movement of said parts.

7. In matrix-assembling mechanism, a reciprocating packer-slide consisting of two relatively movable parts, levers pivoted on vertical pivots to one of said parts and having matrix-engaging fingers, two wedges lying between said levers on opposite sides of their pivots and adapted to engage with and operate said levers, said wedges being secured to the other relatively movable part of the packerslide, and mechanism engaging with the lastmentioned part for operating said slide.

8. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination of an assembling-rail, an assembling-spout, and an escapement for the latter which includes a pallet-lever, an operatingarm movably connected with said pallet-lever, a spring through which motion is transmitted from said operating-arm to said pallet-lever, and a reciprocating packer-slide having an inclined surface for engaging said operatingarm.

9. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination of a packer-slide, a link pivotally connected with said slide, an arm pivotally connected at one end to a fixed support in substantially the same horizontal plane as said pivot of the link, and pivotally connected at its other end with the free end of said link thereby forming a toggle, and means for alternating, flexing and substantially straightening said toggle.

10. In matrix-assembling mechanism, the combination of a packer-slide, a pivoted bellcrank lever, a link connecting one arm thereof with said packer-slide, an operating-slide, and a link connecting the last-mentioned slide with the other arm of said bell-crank lever.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN F. BELLOWS.

Witnesses:

E. L. THURSTON, B. W. BROOKETT. 

